Exadata Hardware - Oracle Exadata Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach - page 4

• Twelve 600 GB High Performance (HP) SAS disks or twelve 3 TB High Capacity (HC) SAS disks

connected to a storage controller with a 512 MB battery-backed cache

• Two 40 GbpsInfiniBand ports

• Embedded GbE Ethernet port dedicated for Integrated Lights Out Management (ILOM)

• On the X3-2 Eighth Rack, only two PCI flash cards are enabled and 6 disks per storage cell are

enabled

The Exadata Database Machine X3-2 compute grid configuration, per server, consists of the following:

• Oracle X3-2 server model

• Two eight-core Intel Xeon E5-2690 processors running at 2.9 GHz

• 128 GB memory

• Four 300 GB, 10k RPM SAS disks

• Two 40 GbpsInfiniBand ports

• Two 10 GbE Ethernet ports

• Four 1 GbE Ethernet ports

• Embedded 1GbE ILOM port

For the Exadata Database Machine X3-8, the compute grid includes the following:

• Eight 10-core E7-8870 processors running at 2.4GHz

• 2 TB memory

• Eight 300 GB, 10k RPM SAS disks

• Eight 40 GbpsInfiniBand ports

• Eight 10 GbE Ethernet ports

• Eight 1 GbE Ethernet ports

• Embedded 1GbE ILOM port

Exadata X2-2 comes in Full Rack, Half Rack, and Quarter Rack configurations, while the Exadata X2-8 is only
offered in Full Rack. The X3-2 comes in a Full Rack, Half Rack, Quarter Rack, and Eighth Rack. The difference between
the Full Rack, Half Rack, and Quarter Rack configuration is with the number of nodes in each of the three hardware
grids. The X3-2 Eighth Rack has the same number of physical servers in the compute and storage grid but with
processors disabled on the compute nodes and both PCI cards and disks disabled on the storage servers. Table 1-1
lists the X2-2, X2-8, X3-2, and X3-8 hardware configuration options and configuration details.